The Insight is the first of three new hybrid models that will appear within the next four years, Honda promised.

'Futuristic' interior

It will begin sales of the Insight in Japan, Europe and North America next spring. It reckons it'll sell 200,000 of them each year worldwide.

Honda is also showing its FXC Clarity not-quite-mass-production fuel-cell car, which has been snapped up by a variety of eco-conscious Hollywood glitterati, the company claimed, since it became available over there in August.